Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , the market was left with the impression that Midland might not be worth quite as much as analysts had hoped and the shares were marked back 7 to 365p . |
| 2 | Were brought back one early morning by a drunken cabman — his red plush waistcoat unbuttoned , white shiny hat toppling on to the pavement , when at last he delivered them . |
| 3 | The crevices where the spurs were cut back each year were particularly attractive hiding places for mealy bugs . |
| 4 | As the minutes of silence and confusion unfolded , the crush eased and a visibly shaken band were allowed back onstage . |
| 5 | She continued to have the pain and was referred back four years later to a different surgeon who did a normal barium meal and barium enema . |
| 6 | I had hardly finished rummaging through my snapshots of cars of the '50s ( pictured here a fortnight ago ) when I was transported back another 10 years to the 1940s . |
| 7 | She played her one-woman show on Broadway , across America , and was called back four times , by popular demand , to Australia . |
| 8 | The front driver 's side of the bus was driven back twelve feet amputating Mr Wright 's legs and killing the three students . |
| 9 | In due course Nones was set back three hours to midday , and this is the origin of the word ‘ noon ’ . |
| 10 | The King was brought back front Sandringham . |
| 11 | Quincx Roirbak was taken back twenty years , to a time when a young student had asked him questions with the same expression of need for reassurance . |
| 12 | With three sets of windows serving five levels , the lower mezzanine floor was held back 1.2 metres from the outside walls to avoid the ugly juxtaposition of window and floor edge . |
| 13 | It jerked his foot banged his knee and was yanked back open . |